Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [v-ing] for an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 2 | An answer came from Huddersfield , where the Town Football Club were looking for an assistant to their secretary-manager Ambrose Langley , who had partnered Chapman 's brother at Hull before the war . |
| 3 | Mr Salmond may well be right in supposing that Labour 's Scottish high command was looking for an excuse to wriggle out of its reluctant commitments to constitutional co-operation . |
| 4 | In the first place it was clear that it had been a mistake to let Alexei know that his transfer away from the Praetorian Guard had been requested — because if the boy was looking for an excuse for his antagonism , then the one with which he had just been presented was perfect . |
| 5 | In medieval times the acre or strip , which was the average day 's ploughing for an ox-team , was sometimes called a jurnalis ( or diurnalis ) in monks ' Latin and journel in French — that is , the amount of ploughing that could be done in one day . |
| 6 | Additionally , the International Association of Art is pressing for an EC Charter for the visual arts . |
| 7 | Leaning against a Cas. wall when Sister was on the bridge was asking for an explosion . |
| 8 | An MP is calling for an investigation into supermarket pricing , claiming high prices are to blame for keeping inflation from falling further . |
| 9 | An MP is calling for an improvement to the exotic bird trade which a new Government report has branded ’ barbarous and inhumane ’ . |
| 10 | Although the famous gallery owner is thinking of retiring and has for some time been searching for an institution to take on his private collection , the title of the event ‘ TransForm ’ is not a veiled reference to his forthcoming conversion from art dealer to museum collector . |
| 11 | I should have realized that Clive would dump me at the first opportunity , that he had in fact been looking for an excuse to do so . |
| 12 | At that particular time I would n't tell them anything , all my all at that particular time is waiting for an appointment to see them . |
| 13 | Alternatively , it might involve the leaking of information to the effect that one arm of the conglomerate is acting for an offeror in a take-over negotiation . |